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22 Feb 2018 6:20:22pm

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I trimmed my comment down to ensure that the last line was intact. It should have read “The cancer vanished.”

The story. About 18 years ago a young woman I knew went to northern Qld and got a job in a motel. Her mother kept me informed about what she was up to as she had a bad peptic ulcer in the base (pyloris) of her stomach. She suffered a lot of mood swing as well. Anyway a couple of months passed and her mother told me that she'd collapsed at work. Her ulcer was bleeding very badly and her doctor had prescribed a new drug for. Nothing for a couple or more months and she collapses again, has endoscopy and found to have a very fast growing stomach cancer.

The new drug, Cimetidine. I thought Cimetidine, I've got a book on that somewhere. I found it, 50 cents at Dymock's bargain basement. It was called 'Safety Evaluation of Nitosatable Drugs and Chemicals'. Some stuff about nitrates in sausages, water etc. but mostly about Cimetidine, about how when taking sodium bicarb as an antacid, certain bacteria breed in the alkaline conditions, which convert the drug to a carcinogenic nitosamine.

So I photocopied the relevant bits and sent them, along with some Diastix to help her eliminate refined sugar from her diet and the stress underlying the ulcer formation. A few more months pass and her mother gets a call to say she's just had endoscopy done by her oncologist and the cancer has disappeared along with the ulcer. As soon as she got the info from me she became so disenchanted with the medical profession for having prescribed the drug she threw it away, snatched her job and laid on the beach, presumably just waiting to die.

Now I assume that she has gone through some sort of rebirth, accepting the inevitability of death and calmed right down, aided by getting off the sugar, because her mother told me that a different person walked in the door when she got home, calm with no more temper tantrums.

This validates what I have long suspected, that some cancers grow to actually deactivate a poison, in this case the nitrosamine, before it can get into the bloodstream where it can cause a lot of damage. In other word they grow for a reason so their growth is not random. Take away the cause of it's growth, in this case Cimetidine, and it will disappear as it is no longer needed.

Because of a unique set of circumstances this was the outcome. Normally it would be 'cut, poison and burn'. Chemo, more poison, vastly more stress, no change of diet. Surgery, poisonous (hepatoxic) anaesthetic Halothane and on and on. I wrote a booklet about this experience and handed it out at a Lorne Cancer Conference I attended about 12 years ago. (I went every year for about 12 years.) A woman researcher remarked sarcastically, “It's all anecdotal.” Of course it's anecdotal because people who undergo total remission do so by getting out of the clutches of the medical profession before it kills

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